Publisher's Synopsis
An inspiring true story of barbarity, hope, and survival, this Holocaust memoir of a teenage boy imprisoned in Birkenau, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald illuminates the dark days of World War II, told in words and through dozens of his own color drawings. During the Second World War, Thomas Geve, along with his mother, was deported and imprisoned in a series of Nazi death camps. For the next twenty-two months, Thomas suffered horrific brutality at the hands of Hitler's SS as his fellow inmates were crowded into the camps' gas chambers. Surrounded by misery, he somehow found the will to live. Miraculously, Thomas endured, and at eighteen, he was freed. During the nearly two years of his captivity, the teenager mad/e a visual record of life in the camps through drawings that captured both the shocking--scenes of infamous danger and darkness--and the mundane--portraits of his fellow prisoners going about their daily assigned routine
